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RHODES m ÍÍSS ïííiíí. ii ■ i l 111 I ! m wif fiflpf fifi ffff OLD RHODIAN UNION JUNE 1988 Over the years, the De Beers commit designed for both economy and comfort De Beers House ment to Cecil John Rhodes’ concern for and is not marred by some of the draw society has continued, and Rhodes Univerbacks which have arisen with some other opened sity has benefited from this commitment residences on campus. The design of the many times. In 1974 De Beers' Social new residence was based upon that of the Monday, April 11,1988 was a day of celebResonsibility Fund was combined with adjoining Goldfields House. The choice ration at Rhodes, when the newest resid that of their sister company, Anglo and pattern of the brickwork blend in with ence at Kimberley Hall was opened by Dr American, to form the Anglo American that used in the surrounding residences, Julian Ogilvie Thompson, Chairman of Deand De Beers Chairman's Fund and subse but De Beers house has an identity all of Beers Consolidated Mines. quently, the Education Trust. It wasits own. De Beers House, which houses about 80through the Education Trust that De Beers male students, took a year to build at a costwas able to fund the building of the new of Rl,74 million which was donated to the residence. The donation of this money was University by Anglo American and De just one of several special donations made Beers Chairman’s Fund Educational to universities to mark the centenary of Trust. De Beers. It was decided to name the new residence At the official opening of De Beers De Beers House to maintain the symbolicHouse, Dr Ogilvie Thompson said that the link between the University and the man Chairman’s Fund was particularly Wanted after whom it was named, Cecil John impressed with the pioneering work done Rhodes. Rhodes was not only a shrewdby Rhodes to open its campus residence to businessman. He was also a philanthropstudents of all races. Copies of student newspapers, RHODEO ist, and the trust fund endowed in Rhodes’ “The availability of suitable accom such as and other Will continued the work he had started, in modation conducive to private study is astudent publications from the helping to lay the foundations for thebasic requirement if any individual is to period 1918 to 1939. fledgling Rhodes University College in make the best of his or her study years,” The Cory Library for Histori 1904. he said. cal Research has many gaps in its "Halls of residence offer much more records and would appreciate than simply board and lodging. Hall life any help that Old Rhodians involves social inter-action and is specifi can give. cally intended to create a special cam Please send any relevant araderie among the inhabitants of indivi material to: dual halls. This meeting and mixing with The Cory Librarian fellow students should be of major assis tance in integrating black students into Rhodes University university life,” Dr Ogilvie Thompson Grahamstown stressed. 6140 South Africa At a luncheon in the Kimberley Hall Dining Room to mark the opening of the new residence, the Vice-Principal, Dr Roux van der Merwe, explained how the residence system at Rhodes has had to grow, especially in the last 20 years, to keepKeep in pace with the growing number of students requiring accommodation. touch Thanking everyone concerned with the planning, design and construction of De The Department of Business Adminis Beers house. Dr van der Merwe stressed tration’s first Annual Report, full of that such expansion to provide bigger andnews of the Department’s activities dur better facilities for students at Rhodes ing 1987, has just been sent to all known would not be possible without the generouspast students of the Department. If you support of the mining industry and thehaven’t received a copy, and would like world of business in general, especially in one, please contact Mrs King at the these times of subsidy cuts. Department of Business Administration Dr van der Merwe called upon the at Rhodes. residents of De Beers house to use the uni This will be an annual publication, and que opportunity the new residence affor the Department is keen to keep in touch ded them to build on the joint traditions of De Beers and Rhodes and, in so doing, to with as many past students as possible., “create a special community in the future,so please let Mrs King know where you on the basis of this illustrious past”. are and what line of business you are Dr Julian Ogilvie Thompson De Beers house is a model residence, in. 1 RHODES NEWSLETTER JUNE 1988 ISEA Award Shades of Adamastor Dr Lawrence Wright, a Lecturer in the To mark the quincentenary of Bartolomeu Department of English at Rhodes Univer Dias’ rounding of the Cape, the Institute for sity, has been awarded the 1988 Alan the Study of English in Africa (ISEA), in Macintosh Travelling Fellowship, association with the National English administered by the Institute for the Study Literary Museum (NELM) published an of English in Africa (ISEA) at Rhodes. anthology of poetry entitledShades of The award will enable Dr Wright to Adamastor. undertake research into the place of The anthology was compiled and intro Shakespeare in post-colonial Africa. duced by Professor Malvern van Wyk “My proposed research will have value Smith, Head of the Department of English in helping to determine the future of the at Rhodes. literature curriculum in our rapidly chang “The mythical figure of Adamastor was ing society, and will also have specific chosen as the key image for the anthology application to the development of a series because there is a large amount of material of Shakespeare texts tailored to the needs of in which the encounter between the the second language speaker in southern explorers and the brooding spirit of Africa Africa’’, Dr Wright said. is depicted. Luis de Camoes, the 16th cen His research will involve a trip to Britain tury Portuguese poet, created the allegori to consult libraries and academic experts, cal figure of Adamastor to express the as well as contact with educators and hostile spirit of the Cape of Storms. academics in different parts of post “Adamastor is an extremely powerful colonial Africa. image, which runs through the work of a Dr Wright, who previously won Rhodes number of poets, from quite early writers to and Commonwealth Scholarships, is pro those of the present day. For Roy ject leader for the Shakespeare for Students Dr Lawrence Wright Campbell, Adamastor became the image in Southern Africa project, Executive for the whole of Africa in his valedictory Editor ofShakespeare in Southern Africa and poem written in the 1930’s,’’ Prof van Wyk a member of the National Executive of the Smit said. Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa. Old Rhodian Other poets include Guy Butler, David The Alan Macintosh Fellowship, Wright, Roy McNabb, Anthony Delius and endowed by Mrs Marjorie Macintosh in Reunions Sydney Clouts. memory of her husband, was established “Poets are grappling with the problem of with the intention of improving the stan BLOEMFONTEIN how to amalgamate their European origins dard of the teaching of English in South with their lives in Africa, and the Adamas Africa in ways likely to prove most effecThursday 8 September — 6.30 p.m. at 121 Dan Pienaar Drive tor image appears in the works of even such tive, and is offered by the ISEA in recent poets as Stephen Watson, who uses alternate years. Contact: Mrs Marge Mahaffey : Telephone 311812 this anthropomorphic image Thein Moun tain (in This City, 1986). CAPE TOWN “I have tried to cover as much ground as Friday 9 September — WPCC Impala possible in the anthology. It is not just a Room celebration of the endeavours of the Por Contact: Mrs Kitty Cruise : Telephone tuguese explorers. We need to be aware of 741978 the fact that their feats are not welcomed by black poets — their work is a story of con DURBAN quest. So the anthology sees those voyages Friday 9 September — The Staff Club, from several angles — from heroic Natal University, Durban at 6.30 p.m. endeavour to black outrage,” Prof van Wyk Contact: Dr Andrew Mitchell: Telephone Smit said. 8202652 JOHANNESBURG Friday 16 September — The Wanderers at 6.30 p.m. Contact: Miss Charmaine Crawford : Telephone 7885543 KIMBERLEY Wednesday 7 September — The Kimberley Club at 6.00 p.m. Contact:Mr Jock Robey : Telephone 31486 PRETORIA Saturday 17 September Contact: Mr Mark Delaney : Telephone 6618866 UNITED KINGDOM Saturday 3 September — a lunch-time braaivleis at Rex and Elizabeth Davis’s Prof Jack Gledhill received an Honorary DSc fromhome in Dorking. UNISA at the end of last year. Prof Gledhill is theContact: Mr Murray Graham : address — Director of the Hermann Olthaver Institute 27at Dormers Wells Lane, Southall, Mid Rhodes. dlesex UB1 3HX, England. Professor Malvern van Wyk Smith RHODES NEWSLETTER JUNE 1988 2 RHODES UNIVERSITY Old Rhodian News CONVOCATION ANNUAL MEETING 1988 Errol (1979)and Debbie (Gibbs, 1978) NOTICE Abrahamsonhave settled in Somerset East, where Errol has joined the family legal practice and Debbie freelances as a script The Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting of Convocation (for members of Convocation writer for educational television program only) will be held in the Vice-Chancellor’s Dining Room, Rhodes Union, on mes. Thursday, 18 August 1988, at 5.15 p.m. Fiona (Doran 1948) Adamczewskilives in AGENDA London and arranges displays of arts and crafts. Her last arrangement, on embroid 1. Notice of Meeting. ery, was held at Hampton Court. 2. Minutes of Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting held on 20 August, 1987.

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